About

Arvind Kala is a Lead Engineer at Media.Net with over 11 years of relevant experience in software development. He is passionate about learning new technologies and developing ideas to architect solutions for complex problems. Arvind is most comfortable with programming languages that he is not familiar with, which demonstrates his adaptability and willingness to learn. Arvind has worked on various aspects of product development, including best coding practices and automated tests. He has worked primarily on PHP web frameworks such as Laravel, WordPress, Codeigniter, and YII, as well as relational databases like MySQL and Postgres. He has also worked with jQuery and Apache Solr. Additionally, he has experience with Python, Snowplow analytics, and Java. Currently, Arvind is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Directi. He previously worked as a Senior Developer at BigDecisions, a NewsCorp company. During his tenure there, he was responsible for product development, code quality, and architecture decisions. He led the development of the VCCircle site, which is currently hosted on Automattic's VIP platform. Arvind also contributed to open source Snowplow and imposed the code review process, coding standards, and best coding practices adoption across the team. Arvind was also a Co-Founder of AjmerAtoZ.com, a local search engine for the Ajmerites. He was responsible for the architecture and development of the website, internal CMS based on YII for data insertion and management, sponsors management, and online marketing, including ad campaigns and SEO. Arvind holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science from Regional College, Jaipur, and a Higher Secondary degree in Mathematics from Birla Senior Secondary School, Pilani. He has a diverse tech stack, including dotNET, AWS, Javascript, ReactJS, search, infra, parts-of-speech, and test.